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Created by Fabio Iacono
Created on May 25, 2023

Ignore specific deployment stages

We are using the full power of Liquit deployment by installing Liquit Workspace Agent during the MDT setup.

The main reason is because give us a faster user experience in comparison of InTune which delay some minute before the app starts the setup + deployment mode .


The problem we are facing is that during the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) , Liquit tries to start the deployment when reaches the DefaultUser0 prior to the user login.


DefaultUser0 is a default system Microsoft account where enterprise companies like us, we include some customization before the users login for the first time.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/defaultuser0/037733b0-3017-4ff3-80ff-6b12a48630d9


The problem we are facing when the MDT deployment reaches DefaultUser0:

Liquit Workspace agent starts the Liquit deployment, because recognize DefaultUser0 as normal user. The problem is that afterwards we won't be able to re-run Liquit Deployment when the users sign in for the first time, unless we have to restart LiquitUniversalAgent service and re-enable the "Deployment" under Agent.Json parameter.


The current workaround is that until we reach DefaultUser0 we keep LiquitUniversalAgent service disabled, to avoid the automatic deployment mode to be started. At the final stage of DefaultUser0 we are enabling LiquitUniversalAgent so that the users once they sign in, they will have the full power of Liquit Deployment for the first time which will show faster.


This workaround unfortunately does not work at 100% and sometimes we are struggling in the phase of enabling LiquitUniversalAgent.


What could be the best solution to avoid this?

Would be amazing if Liquit service will skip the deployment mode if detect the current user called as "DefaultUser0" and keep the deployment mode active (which is already on the Agent.json) and ready as soon the main user login for the first time.


By having this solution, we dont need anymore to disable LiquitUniversalAgent during the MDT and increase the success rate.

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